Set of Characters as Delimiter in string tokenizer JAVA

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How to split the text in to sentence based on set of characters as delimiter ?. I have a function where user will input text and the delimiter. Delimiter can be single character or a string (user can specify 'xyz' as a delimiter). I have tried StringTokenizer(text, delimiter) which takes only character as delimiter. Next option was String.split() but this fails when I give delimiter such as '**'. It requires "\" to be appended to the delimiter. Appending "\" looks like very tedious job because if the delimiter is "**" then I have to change it to "\*\*". If the delimiter is say "< TAB >" then I split function looks like String [] sentences = text.split("\\<TAB\\>");

Is there any easy way to split text in to sentences based of set of characters as delimiter ?.

`StringTokenizer(String, String)` doesn't only accept a single character as a delimiter, it accepts a `String`. — Bobulous, May 17 '15 at 10:46

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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I think you could easily google this, yet I will provide you the answer:

String separator = ...
s.split(Pattern.quote(separator));

The answer comes directly from here.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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answered May 17 '15 at 10:46

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